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on the bus back for chicago, a woman bored with her sidney sheldon book looked up a second time after we laid down our luggage and cued up behind her.

"is this is the line to chicago?" one in our party asked.

"yes, but i'm actually getting off at detroit," she said, smiling, happy to be distracted. like all important conversations, i forget how this one led to the current elections, but i do remember my cousin pointing out her rainbow pin with the word "kerry" printed on it.

like all impotant debates, i hardly notice the difference between her arguments to vote democrat and my cousin's efforts to deflect them for voting for the incumbent. what i do notice is that i've heard everything that my cousin's said before, only never bothered to respond because they're made by my cousin, who'll hang around my life for as long as i'm in it. the other thing that stuck in my head's most of what sasha, who read sidney sheldon, said, made sense.

for slowpokes like me, debates are always hard to follow. all i noticed during the last presidential debate were the distractions - bush picking his eye, kerry writing and laughing into his podium. you understand the most arcane of things, like strikes of lightning clearing the fog in your consciousness - for example, i actually understood that they disagreed about their plans for north korea.

i'm determined to follow this election the only way i know how - by identifying the issues and on where they stand... ok. the candidates for vice president duke it out, round 1... the only round... begins... right now.
 
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